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Greek Tragedy Background BACKGROUND OF GREEK TRAGEDY 1 GREEK TRAGEDY Tragedy was performed in Athens at the three annual festivals of Dionysus, the most important of which was the Great Dionysia (or “City Dionysia”) in late March. On three successive mornings at this SATYR PLAYS festival, three tragic poets, who had been selected competitively --A burlesque or ribald drama having a chorus of earlier in the year, each presented a tetralogy consisting of three satyrs, usually written by a poet to follow the tragedies and a satyr-play. In addition, the festival featured comic poet's trilogy of tragedies presented at the and dithyrambic contests, and religions processions and rituals of Dionysian festival in ancient Greece. various kinds. At the close of the festival ten judges who had been chosen by lot determined the winners and awarded prizes. --genre of ancient Greek drama that preserves the structure and characters of tragedy while Besides writing the plays and composing the adopting a happy atmosphere and a rural accompanying music, the poet was responsible for directing the background. production and supervising rehearsals. Often, in earlier times, he acted the role of the protagonist, or central character, also, but this The satyr play can be considered the reversal of tradition seems to have been broken in the time of Sophocles. The Attic tragedy, a kind of “Joking tragedy.” The poets chosen to compete at the festivals were assigned actors, actors play mythical heroes engaged in action chorus, extras, and musicians by the state. The costs of the drawn from traditional mythical tales, but the production were paid by the choregus, a wealthy citizen appointed chorus members are satyrs, guided by old Silenus. by the government to do this as a liturgy, or public service. The Satyrs are nature spirits who combine male privilege of backing the plays was considered a great honor, and human traits (beards, hairy bodies, flat noses, and the choregus shared the praise and awards given the poet if their an erect phallus) with the ears and tails of horses. plays won first prize. The satyrs are contrasted with the main Because attendance was a civic and religious obligation as characters—who are more or less serious—by well as a source of entertainment, admission to the theater was their dancing, their love of wine, and their originally free. When it eventually became necessary to charge diverting banter, often expressed in low language. for tickets, the state provided funds for all citizens who could not This contrast, which is the special trait of satyric afford the price. drama, served to alleviate the emotional tension of the tragic trilogy. ORIGINS Tragedy is thought to have developed from the ancient “THE SONG OF THE GOATS” dithyramb, or choral lyric, which was sung by a male chorus in honor of the god Dionysus at these annual festivals. These The term “tragedy” is derived from the performances also included group dancing and probably some Greek word tragoidia, which means something brief dialogue between the leader and the chorus. At first the like “goat song.” It is unclear where this term dithyramb was a crude improvisation based on the myths about comes from, but there are various theories: Dionysus and may have taken the form of a rough burlesque or satire, from which the satyr-play of classical drama was derived. There may have been a goat sacrifice connected In time it came to have a more formal artistic structure and its with the rites of Dionysus and the original content was expanded to include stories from the whole Dithyrambic songs sung at this feast. legendary tradition. The male followers of Dionysus, the satyrs, were At some point a radical half man, half animal and had goat-like features transformation in approach took place and (although horses’ tails). a serious philosophical attitude replaced The term is applied to anything overripe, and to the older boisterousness. The addition of be like a goat is to be untamed, or of the country, an actor to the chorus allowed more as opposed to the city. In tragedy, we watch complicated and lengthy stories to be used. characters overstep the boundaries of usual moral The father of drama was said by the Greeks codes and behavior and experience the often to have been Thespis. He first used an horrific consequences. Perhaps the term contains actor in his productions and was responsible for several other something of the excessiveness of tragedy, which innovations. In 534 B.C. Thespis put on the first tragedy at the would also connect directly to the nature of the worship of Dionysus. LANGUAGE ARTS / CHUNG / thinkthrive.blogspot.com 1 BACKGROUND OF GREEK TRAGEDY 2 festival of Dionysus in Athens, although his new dramatic form may have been in existence for a short while before this in the rural areas of Attica. There is some reason to believe, however, that it was Aeschylus who first wrote tragedy in the sense that the word is used today, with the emphasis on content rather than stylistic matters. During the fifth century, tragedy matured and its technique was improved until it became the sophisticated literary form seen in the hands of Sophocles. Regardless of the changes in style and content, tragic performances remained an important element in the civic worship of Dionysus. The dithyramb also developed along independent lines as a choral medium, and dithyrambic contests continued to be a regular part of the dramatic festivals at Athens along with tragedy for the next few centuries. PLOTS The stories used in tragedy were taken almost exclusively from the great cycles of mythology, although occasionally, as in The Persians of Aeschylus, a poet might draw upon a contemporary theme. These ancient myths and heroic legends were like a bible to the Greeks, for they recorded what was thought to be the collective social, political, and religious history of the people, and included many profound and searching tales about the problems of human life and the nature of the gods. The custom requiring the use of these mythological stories in tragedy satisfied an essential requirement of the religious function of drama, for it enabled the poets to deal with subjects of great moral dignity and emotional significance. From a dramatic point of view, the use of plots and characters already familiar to the audience gave the poet many opportunities for the use of irony and subtle allusions that are not available to the modern playwright. KEY TERMS Suspense as it is known in the present-day theater could not easily be evoked, but the audience’s attention was created by the poet’s freedom to change or IRONY interpret the myths as he thought necessary. The spectators, already aware of the outlines of the story, learned from tragedy what personal motives and outgoing forces had driven the characters to act the way they did. It is thought that the dramatist’s reinterpretation and explanation of the ancient myths was ALLUSIONS one of the most important factors considered by the Greeks in evaluating his work. The solemn and exalted quality of Greek tragedy, and the purposeful SUSPENSE examination of the meaning of life in which its characters engage, are even today able to make a deep impression on readers, and are direct results of the use of stories based on mythological themes. THE THEATER AND THEATRICAL EQUIPMENT The Greek theater was built in the open air and was generally quite large: the Theater of Dionysus at Athens, for example, had more than 17,000 seats. The theaters were usually built in hollowed out hillsides, and, despite their size, had excellent acoustics so that words spoken by the performers could easily be heard in all sections. The theatron was the area in which the audience sat. It was shaped like a horseshoe and had rows of stone seats rising upward until backward in tiers. In the first row were stone thrones for the principal citizens and the priest of Dionysus. The circular area at ground level which was enclosed on three sides by the U-shaped theatron was known as the orchestra, or the seeing place of the chorus. In its center was the thymele, an altar to Dionysus on which sacrifices were made and which sometimes used as a stage prop during plays. The chorus assembled in the orchestra after LANGUAGE ARTS / CHUNG / thinkthrive.blogspot.com 2 BACKGROUND OF GREEK TRAGEDY 3 marching in through the right or left parodos, or entrance passage, and remained there during the rest of the performance. The flute player and occasional harpist who provided musical accompaniment for the tragedies generally sat in a corner of the orchestra. On the side of the orchestra which formed the open end of the theatron stood a wooden structure, the skene, or scene building. This was a dressing room for the actors, but its façade was usually made to resemble a palace or temple and it served as a backdrop for the action of the play. The three doors of the skene were used for entrances and exits. The proscenium was the level area in front of the skene on which most of the play’s action took place, although at times the actors might move to the orchestra or even to the roof of the skene. There was no stage, but the proscenium may have been raised one step higher than the orchestra, and there was no curtain. A few items of technical equipment were available for special effects. These included devices for imitating lightning and the sound of thunder; other noisemakers; painted scenery; the eccyclema, a wheeled platform which was rolled out of the skene to a tableau of action that had taken place indoors (mainly scenes of violence, e.g., at the end of Antigone where the doors of the palace are opened to show the corpse of Eurydice); and the “machine,” some kind of derrick that could be mounted on the roof of the skene and used to bring about the miraculous appearances of gods.
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